Murder retail ordered over errant jury charge

A confessed killer faces a retrial after the B.C. Court of Appeal earlier this month voided his first-degree murder conviction because the trial judge erred in his jury instructions. Mathew Foerster acknowledged that his actions led to the death of 18-year-old Taylor Van Diest on Halloween night in 2011, but said he was guilty only of manslaughter or second-degree murder.